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From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: MS-Windows and networking software
Keywords: networks, FTP Software
Message-ID: <3769@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 89 21:57:47 GMT
Reply-To: riordan@frith.UUCP (Mark Riordan)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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Over the past several months, I have seen a few postings describing
how it is impossible to run networking applications under MS Windows.
Several people  found various networks incompatible with Windows, 
evidently due to Windows' habit of stealing the timer interrupt.

Well, I have found that Windows and the networking kernel from
FTP Software, Inc. get along fine.  I have been able to run several
copies of TNGLASS (dumb but well-behaved TELNET implementation that
comes with the TCP/IP suite from FTP Software) simultaneously, each in 
its own window, with no problem.
This is under Windows/286 v. 2.10, and FTP Software's
PC/TCP version 2.  (I've heard that versions 1.x of FTP Software's
stuff don't get along with Windows.)

FTP Software's Development Kit for DOS includes a socket library;
I assume this means one could write socket applications under Windows.

I hope to test this assumption soon; meanwhile, I'd like to hear
from anyone who knows more about this.

Mark Riordan   Mich State Univ   riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu